25 Comments/Reviews

they had a nice fender hellcat acoustic at my local pawnshop and they had it
hanging in the window!!!!!!!. i said you have to take that down right away
the bridge will start lifting and shit will go haywire. i went back 3 weeks
later and the bridge is starting to pull off.. the wood is all cracked..it
had direct sun everyday…but nope they didn’t listen,,they lost 300 bucks﻿

This was such a cool video, Dave! Thanks! I have one git that I bought
with a split in the bridge. It’s a cheapie guitar and plays fine (the
bridge is just split – it’s not lifting yet). I could practice on it if I
could find clamps to press the new one down.﻿

I read somewhere that one can use a common drinking straw to remove the
glue that squeezes out. I tried it and I like it. The straw conforms to
the square corner and the glue gets scooped up. The bigger straw the
better – I then cut an inch off the straw and discard the gluey piece.
Saves using a wet rag or cuetip. Plus it is a great excuse to make
Margaritas. Love the videos Dave.﻿

i’ve had a similar problem before, but when the bridge ripped up, it took a
lot of the wood with it from the top as well as the lacquer, i advised them
to either see a specialist or buy a new one as i had no idea whether
re-gluing the bridge on would hold well enough being that there was now a
lack of material (if that makes sense). anywho, for future reference, what
can you do in this situation?﻿

Nice work Dave!
I had an old Yamaha on my bench a couple of months ago, with the same
disease… A bit delamination of the top under the bridge, and since it was
a cheapo, I stabilized it with superglue. The owner told me it sounded
better than ever now :)﻿

i hate it when companies put the bridge on top of the lacquer top. does it
really cost that much more to remove the lacquer where the bridge goes. it
cost me $140 to get a bridge replacement on my yamahaha that cost $400, and
when the guy replaced it, he told me it was one of those classic cases
where the bridge was glued on top of the finish. my next $400 guitar will
be made by epiphone, thank you very much.﻿

Dave, have you done a vid on lowering the action on an acoustic? I’ve
sanded down the bottom bridge almost level with the retaining wood and got
the neck straight via the truss rod but it’s still like a cheese grater, or
may be its just a cheap (Berkley) guitar? What do you recommend for a
decent acoustic with a nice low action? Keep ’em coming bro……﻿

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